“No, I don’t know why women are fleeing the Republican Party in droves.”

Shorter Bill Kritsol: “Biology proves that the IDF is a hopelessly deficient combat force, what with all those unfit women and all. You’d have to be a grade-A moron to think that women are capable of serving in combat roles. Ask this scientician. In conclusion, gender equality is contrary to common sense, decency, and honor.”
…also, this.And.

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“This is therefore a moment of opportunity. The political leader who takes on this fight will be mocked and scorned–almost as much as was Ronald Reagan in 1977, when he challenged the bipartisan elite consensus on the Panama Canal Treaty. As it happens, I suspect this fight will prove more winnable in Congress than the fight against the Panama Canal Treaty.”

Reagan was truly a man of infinite foresight- just look at the multitude of disasters that have followed the handoff.

DocAmazing

Kristol manages to be wrong even about events that are already well in the past. How does he do it?

DrDick

He has the unique talent of always being wrong abot everything.

commie atheist

The fucking Panama fucking Canal fucking Treaty? That was Reagan’s “moment of opportunity” to show what big-balls leader he was? Seriously?

Christ, what an asshole.

DrDick

The Neocons have never gotten over the fact that the canal was returned to Panama.

Tom Renbarger

A man, a plan, a canal–Reagan!

Origami Isopod

I saw enough cross-sections of Reagan’s canal on TV in the early ’80s, kthx.

herr doktor bimler

Ah, that 1986 breakthrough in medical science when surgeons found the one part of Reagan’s body that was not malignant, and successfully removed it.
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There are conservative performance artists. And then there is Newton Leroy Gingrich.

DrDick

Gingrich is his own conservative art form.

JMP

The IDF, with female soldiers, are good fighters? Please; next you’ll be claiming that the French ended up winning the Hundred Years War thanks to the intervention of a woman warrior whose military leadership turned the tide against the English. Silly ladies can’t fight, they don’t have penises!

Adam Bradley

You’re forgetting that God told Jeanne d’Arc what to do. And He does have a penis.

Dave

And, we burned her.

herr doktor bimler

Tell me more of Bill Kristol’s expertise about military service.

c u n d gulag

His expertise was in avoiding military service – which was smart, because I think even the Doctor, after checking him to see if he was physically fit for service, would have “fragged” him, saving some poor battle-weary grunt the trouble.

Well at least we won’t have to worry about any increase in sexual assaults–only “sexual assaults.”

Linnaeus

From the linked article:

“Chivalry is one of the great civilizing forces, taming men and introducing social graces and nuance to what would otherwise be a brutish social world.”

I can’t think of any feminists, at least not any who participate in mainstream discourse, who claim that men need to be “tamed”. Yet it’s feminists who “hate men”. Right.

STH

The right wing needs the whole “taming” thing because it helps them along with the “blaming the victim” thing. You know, if women are going to wear short skirts, those barely-tamed men are going to lose sight of the “civilizing forces” and rape them. Built-in excuse for all sorts of shit.

“Israel is to be supported without question at all times, until something progressive they do that I dont agree with begins to be used as an example for the US.”

My conservative veteran friends are losing their minds right now on FB – end of the infantry, we’re the best what will this do?, etc.

Kurzleg

Yeah, mine too. Big issue is perceived (and perhaps actual) double standards in physical fitness requirements. Not so worried about the nonsense that National Review and others are chattering about.

Brandon

There are lower standards for women, but I think I read that the standards for combat roles will be uniform.

Njorl

Maybe we should only let Jewish women fight?

Jewish Steel

Take my wife. Please.

hiyo!

BobS

Now probably isn’t a good time to tell them about the relatively restrictive gun laws in Israel.

Manju

Well, if we put the women in harness, what are we going to do with all the binders?

bradP

Shouldn’t the argument that bans on women in combat roles prevents incompetent soldiers from making it to the battlefield be really, really insulting to present combat soldiers.

Manju

When Obama let the gays fight, I didn’t speak out because I wasn’t a gay. Then he let the women in, and I didn’t speak because I was not a woman. By the time he asked me to serve, there was no room left in the Texas National Guard.

c u n d gulag

+1

Anna in PDX

Nice.

The Dark Avenger

Here’s a comment I found at NRO and my response:

“Wow. Who knew the Israeli Army has been so wrong for so long.”

“What else did you expect from a country that lacks Christian values?”

Criticizes President and Panetta for making a public policy decision without evidence. Says it’s a bad idea and “won’t someone think of the wimmenz” and step up to fight it. Offers absolutely no evidence of his own why this is a bad idea.

adolphus

Quoting David Frum in the Serwer article: ” In Iranian prisons, rape is a frequent practice.”

Um, yeah. In Iranian prisons. All the prison rape is in Iranian prisons. I guess that stuff in US prisons isn’t “Rape Rape.”

rea

I believe the term for which you are searching is “legitimate rape”

c u n d gulag

The American inmates body has a way of shutting down, in the case of legitimate prison rape.

rea

He has a point, though. We don’t know how this will work out. It’s not as if we’ve sent tens of thousands of women into combat over the last 25 years or so.

No arguments are provided. But public policy arguments are supposed to be based on reality. The president has no interest in a debate about the biological, sociological, psychological or physiological realities of combat. So it will be up to the rest of us to make the arguments against this irresponsible act of liberal social experimentation.

Oh please oh please oh please. By all means, proceed, governor.

Take all the time you need to express your thoughts in as detailed a manner as possible.

John Protevi

We can be sure it will be a very serious, thoughtful, argument that has never been made in such detail or with such care.

herr doktor bimler

the biological, sociological, psychological or physiological realities of combat
Anyone talking like this, you know straightaway that they have a history of pacifism for themselves.

Those Scandiwegian countries that allow women in combat positions, only do so because they have no historical experience of invasion, right?

Dave

Well, actually, Sweden is one of the very few countries in the world never to have its [current] territory invaded in modern history. But that is merely a factual addendum, and irrelevant to the discussion.

Emma in Sydney

Well that was due to a little matter of collaborating with the Nazi invasion of Norway. It isn’t an invasion when you let them use your railways. Can I suggest you don’t use that one of argument on a Norwegian ?

Emma in Sydney

* line of argument

herr doktor bimler

I believe that the Swedish experience of not being invaded is central to my point.

Suffern ACE

Really, Chivalry? I believe what we ask for is courtesy and dur the lack of courts, manners will do. Do soldiers really think they would be knights?

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